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The FDA wants to regulate animals altered using the gene-editing technique CRISPR.

Customer-service reps are getting real-time coaching from software that has learned to detect problems in a conversation.

We’ll likely see new business models and video streaming products from the big ISPs if Trump removes net neutrality rules, and upstart content providers could struggle to compete.

An immersion course in “exponential thinking” at Singularity University lures executives wary of disruption.

Toutiao uses artificial intelligence to curate headline recommendations.

Toutiao uses artificial intelligence to curate headline recommendations.

Nurx provides birth-control prescriptions and delivery, helping reach even women in health-care deserts.

A startup uses algorithms that understand the anatomy of cells to discover new uses for existing drugs.

Playing poker involves dealing with imperfect information, which makes the game very complex, and more like many real-world situations.

Even if you don’t live in Britain, the U.K.’s new “Snooper’s Charter” is worth watching. It could inspire other democratic nations to adopt aggressive surveillance policies.

Machines that are capable of making precise operations inside the human eye will make it possible to perform entirely new procedures.

Millions of people talking with Alexa could help Amazon fight off Google in the home voice assistant market.

A health-care startup is using fancy digs, fitness trackers, and a membership fee to change doctor visits.

Every president since FDR has had a science advisor. Trump has yet to name one or indicate leading candidates.

A startup called Ambrosia will fill your veins with the blood of young people and empty your pockets of $8,000.

Playing video games and surfing Google Street View can teach software a lot about driving.

Self-driving car software can learn a lot without even leaving the garage.

The first of its kind, the device will include a touch screen and 14-line Braille display.

Chips with silicon “neurons” could make satellites, aircraft, and drones smarter.

When Brian Hanley set out to test a gene therapy, he started with himself.

The past eight years saw some wins, and more than a few failures.

Nobel Prize winners lend their faces, credibility, to supplement maker Elysium’s advertising campaign.

How an American animator became a guiding force in China’s bubbling VR scene.

Expect to see better language understanding and an AI boom in China, among other things.

The company became a valuable tech “unicorn” by offering free cloud storage to hundreds of millions of people. Can Dropbox find a way to last by cashing in on corporate users?

Find out how new ideas like reusable rockets, immune engineering, and Tesla’s Autopilot have progressed.

Here are the likely standouts among the smartphones, VR headsets, and smart watches hitting the market this year.

The arrival of gene-therapy cures could transform medicine, but business questions linger.

Swarm robotics, autonomous delivery vehicles, and machine-learned preferences will help deliver your food faster.

Mining companies are rolling out autonomous trucks, drills, and trains, which will boost efficiency but also reduce the need for human employees.

From algorithms that spread fake news to glowing plants that don’t glow, here are our picks for the worst technologies of the year.

Here are the most innovative medical devices, tests, and treatments for women that could reach consumers in the next few years.

The latest boon for navigation services: a new fleet of satellites is now available for public use.

The social network is getting richer and more powerful—but as it grows it also generates more resistance.

Rising temperatures due to climate change will strongly affecteconomic growth around the world, making some countriesricher and some poorer.

Innovative African e-tailers are offering sought-after goods to the continent’s growing ­middle class. But logistical challenges must be worked out delivery by delivery.

The U.S. Department of Defense founded a kind of startup in Silicon Valley to accelerate the development and acquisition of new technologies useful to the military. But will it survive President Trump?

If the next president intends to improve American infrastructure and expand economic opportunities, there’s no better place to start than with the millions of people who still lack broadband access and computer skills.

Why does a mole rat live 30 years but a mouse only three? With $1.5 billion in the bank, Google’s anti-aging spinout Calico is rich enough to find out.

Dozens of organizations are shelling out $129,000 for a box that will help them train AI software.

Sebastian Thrun helped stoke the hype around massive online open college courses—but has pivoted his own startup to focus on vocational training instead.

Google has an ambitious plan to use artificial intelligence to weed out abusive comments and defang online mobs. The technology isn’t up to that challenge—but it will help the Internet’s best-behaving communities function better.

Finding telltale mutations in tumors and targeting those cancers with precisely selected drugs is the newest front in the war on cancer. Now researchers just have to figure out why it doesn’t work for everyone.

An audacious startup thinks it can give 40-ish women a better shot at having children. Should desperate would-be parents believe it?

Researchers use an ingenious design to make a soft robot that moves on its own.

Researchers use an ingenious design to make a soft robot that moves on its own.

The popular portrayal of computers as magic boxes capable of anything has done real societal harm. Now one TV show wants to save us.

Many genetic conditions come with clues in a person’s face, and new technology can help doctors diagnose them.

Poorly secured webcams and other Internet-connected devices are already being used as tools for cyberattacks. Can the government prevent this from becoming a catastrophic problem?

Pay-as-you-go solar systems have begun to light up homes in underserved parts of the continent, but will need to pack more punch to leapfrog the grid.